VitalikButerin: Local LLM Updates Advance CROPS AI

VitalikButerin outlined fresh progress on self-sovereign LLM stacks, noting Deepseek v4 now ships a 2-bit quant runnable inside 90 GB that hits 35 tok/s on Apple silicon yet only 7 tok/s on AMD, underscoring the gap between decentralized AI rhetoric and genuine CROPS AI hardware support.

Alpha Telegram integration arrived in his messaging-daemon repo while Lucebox-hub delivered roughly 2x token throughput versus llama.cpp on a 5090 laptop for dense models such as Qwen 27B; these tools directly enable application-specific fine-tunes like Leanstral that fit under 70 GB and match 1 T parameter performance on Lean code, accelerating secure Ethereum contract development.

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